| Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is an emerging technology that allows objects to be electronically tagged and identified wirelessly. In recent years, many organizations have started to show interest in porting this technology to their existing business processes. With the increase in popularity of the technology, many vendor-specific RFID readers were manufactured and sold to interested organizations.;Deployment of such RFID readers to existing business processes became difficult as software developers needed to understand each vendor-specific RFID reader on its own, due to lack of standardization among RFID readers of different makes, before they were able to work with it and implement what is needed. In recognizing this, a scalable and adaptable middleware, called RFIDMania, was designed to allow software developers to interact with any RFID reader of their choice without having to know the specifics of the reader. RFIDMania provides an environment to process all data received from RFID tags, translates the data, decodes it, filters it and routes it to the application in the form of an event. RFIDMania is able to offer software developers an environment to deliver portable generic code that is not tightly coupled with hardware specific commands. |
